Systems and methods for unioning different taxonomy tags for a digital asset

• US 20060106814A1
• Filed: 11/17/2005
• Published: 05/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Iron Mountain Incorporated
• Inventors: Barnes, Matthew, Blumenau, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 7,716,191 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/125 characterised by the use of retention policies retention policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/14 Details of searching files based on file metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/182 Distributed file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/16 Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2135 Metering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2137 Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2143 Clearing memory, e.g. to prevent the data from being stolen
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/913 Multimedia
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients of the system.

Claims

1. A method of setting a categorization for a digital asset in a distributed computing environment, the method comprising:

(a) receiving, from a first computing device, an asset identification tag and a first taxonomy tag having a first categorization associated with a digital asset;

(b) receiving, from a second computing device, the asset identification tag and a second taxonomy tag having a second categorization associated with the digital asset; and

(c) selecting one of the first taxonomy tag and the second taxonomy tag to associate with the digital asset as the active taxonomy tag.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting each of the first taxonomy tag and the second taxonomy tag to each of the first computing device and the second computing device.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting comprises selecting the taxonomy tag that allows the fewest end-users access to the digital asset.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting comprises selecting the taxonomy tag that allows the largest end-users access to the digital asset.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting comprises selecting the taxonomy tag that allows the fewest actions to be performed on the digital asset.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting comprises selecting the taxonomy tag that allows the most actions to be performed on the digital asset.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting comprises selecting the taxonomy tag that has the earliest creation date.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting the second taxonomy tag to the first computing device and transmitting the first taxonomy tag to the second computing device.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein steps (a), (b), and (c) are performed by a server of a distributed computing environment.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein steps (a), (b), and (c) are performed by a client of a distributed computing environment.

11. A system for setting a categorization for a digital asset in a distributed computing environment, the system comprising:

(a) a first computing device transmitting via a network, an asset identification tag and a first taxonomy tag having a first categorization associated with a digital asset;

(b) a second computing device transmitting via the network, the asset identification tag and a second taxonomy tag having a second categorization associated with the digital asset; and

(c) another computing device in communication with the network that receives the first taxonomy tag and the second taxonomy tag and selects one of the first taxonomy tag and the second taxonomy tag as the active taxonomy tag.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the another computing device comprises the first computing device.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein the another computing device comprises the second computing device.

14. The system of claim 11 wherein the another computing device transmits each of the first taxonomy tag and the second taxonomy tag to each of the first computing device and the second computing device.

15. The system of claim 11 wherein the another computing device selects the taxonomy tag that allows the fewest end-users access to the digital asset.

16. The system of claim 11 wherein the another computing device selects the taxonomy tag that allows the largest end-users access to the digital asset.

17. The system of claim 11 wherein the another computing device selects the taxonomy tag that allows the fewest actions to be performed on the digital asset.

18. The system of claim 11 wherein the another computing device selects taxonomy tag that allows the most actions to be performed on the digital asset.

19. The system of claim 11 wherein the another computing device selects the taxonomy tag that has the earliest creation date.

20. The system of claim 11 wherein the another computing device transmitting the second taxonomy tag to the first computing device and transmitting the first taxonomy tag to the second computing device.

21. The system of claim 11 wherein the another computing device is a server of a distributed computing environment.

22. The system of claim 11 wherein the another computing device is a client of a distributed computing environment.

23. A computer readable medium having executable instructions thereon to set a categorization for a digital asset in a distributed computing environment, the computer readable medium comprising:

(a) instructions to receive, from a first computing device, an asset identification tag and a first taxonomy tag having a first categorization associated with a digital asset;

(b) instructions to receive, from a second computing device, the asset identification tag and a second taxonomy tag having a second categorization associated with the digital asset; and

(c) instruction to select one of the first taxonomy tag and the second taxonomy tag to associate with the digital asset as the active taxonomy tag.

24. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the instruction to select comprises instructions to select the taxonomy tag that allows the fewest end-users access to the digital asset.

25. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the instruction to select comprises instructions to select the taxonomy tag that allows the largest end-users access to the digital asset.

26. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the instruction to select comprises instructions to select the taxonomy tag that allows the fewest actions to be performed on the digital asset.

27. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the instruction to select comprises instructions to select the taxonomy tag that allows the most actions to be performed on the digital asset.

28. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the instruction to select comprises instructions to select the taxonomy tag that has the earliest creation date.

29. The computer readable medium of claim 23 further comprising instructions to transmit the second taxonomy tag to the first computing device and transmitting the first taxonomy tag to the second computing device.

30. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the instruction are executed by a server of a distributed computing environment.

31. The computer readable medium of claim 23 wherein the instruction are executed by a client of a distributed computing environment.